Posted by Former State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was indicted on federal corruption charges today.
Reports say prosecutors say the 79-year-old former New York Republican leader used his office to defraud the people of New York” between 1993 to at least 2006.
In those 13 years, he allegedly received $2 million coming from two financial services and $1.2 million from three union officials. Bruno failed to report the $3.2 million as gifts.
Bruno faces eight counts of corruption, fines of up to $250,000 and up to 20 years in jail if convicted.
He maintains his innocence and held a press conference this afternoon.
More than a year ago, Bruno revealed that his private business dealings were being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Then in July, Bruno suddenly resigned from his position as majority leader and became the chief executive of a consulting firm outside Albany.
Bruno represented the Troy area for 32 years and was a vocal opponent of former Governor Eliot Spitzer.
Source: NY1
The world only has one next-gen identification and commerce credential. Its tech standard is called “smart wallet” by National Institute of Standards and Technology. The inventor of the smart wallet tech standard has federal operations being run from a home on Long Island: mine, because an office within DOD in 7/02 wrote to me and told me to found a federal launch of digital wallet technology. In the spring of 2001 I began approaching New York State’s tech fund, and later a second one the state started. Both funds always cried poverty. Yet, occasionally they mysteriously found money if the organization seeking an RnD grant had links to Bruno. It has been all about pay-to-play for Bruno!
More of my employer’s story will emerge if Judge Cacheris permits the Kyle “Dusty” Foggo (former CIA Executive Director) grand jury testimony to be released on 2/19–as federal prosecutors have requested.
As for Bruno, he belonged in the “clinker” a long time ago! My company denied the financial offers (100 % financing–extended 19 months and 2 buyout offers) from the orchestrators of 911 already for more than 7 years so that they wouldn’t have a financial interest to attack the U.S. again. Bruno’s corruption made it in our best financial interests to sell-out the U.S.’ security!
NYS needs to expand its tax base by attracting new businesses to the state and the state encourage business start-ups so to grow corporate taxes. When Bruno attached strings to the state tech funds that he have a financial interest in each company awarded a grant (totally illegal!), he deprived taxpayers of his honest services by shrinking the tax base so that each taxpayer had to carry a greater percentage of the state’s tax burden.
I did not learn the state’s tech funds required pay-to-play until information about the federal investigation made it into the newspapers. It’s a darn shame for NYS Bruno went unchecked for so many years! Since the state legislature under Bruno did nothing but its best to extradite my employer into the planners of the 2001 attacks’ control, with the pending news coming from the Foggo sentencing, I am packing to move and the company is going with me. With my company’s platform built-out, we would have carried a huge percentage of the state’s tax burden. After 9 years of the state’s extradition as its corrupt officials as a side-effect to their special interests favored the state’s 2001 attackers, the humiliation to emerge on 2/19 if the Foggo grand jury testimony is released will be humongous! The timing on this indictment is excellent since it will serve as a foreshadowing for a whole lot more to come! (Foggo is not the only federal grand jury my company is linked to.)